On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

Always do something different. Always different things.

Before I fellin love with words, with setting skies and singing birds—it was you I fellin love with first.

Indecision is a decision not to use life’s first gift to you – the power of choice.

Laugh as much as possible, because one moment will stop this moment.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous.

Ahh, Otunga. I hope you keep depending on your wife. I hope she keeps making movies because while she's walking the red carpet, you're gonna be walking the unemployment line.

You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.